The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-04-16

mendous question, what Is 10 become
OF the destitute children or these
citiesy We must either act on them
or they will act on u.s. We will either
Christianize them or they will heather
! lie us. IL Is question not more for
the Christian than for the philan-
thropist and the statesman.
OH If we could have all these suf-
fering little ones gathered together
what scene OF hunger, and wretched-
ness, and rags, and sin, and trouble,
and darkness! IL we could see those
little feet on the broad road 10 death,
which. through Christian charity,
ought To be pressing the narrow path
OF life; If we could hear those voices
in blasphemy, which ought 10 be sing
ing the praises Of God; If we could
see those little hearts, which at that
age ought not be soiled with one I'M
clean thought, becoming the sewers
Z for every abomination; IL we could
see those suffering little ones sacrificed
on the altar of every iniquitous passion,
and baptized with FIRE from the lava OF
the pit, we would recoil, crying out
"Ayaunt. thou dream of hell"
They are not always going TO be
1 children. They are coming up 10 be
the men and women OF this country
That spark of iniquity that might now
be put ont with one drop Of the water
of life will become the connagration
of every green thing that God ever
4 planted in the soul. That which ought
20 have been temple Of the Holy
! Ghost will become "A SCARED and bis
tered ruin every light quenched and
/ every altar in the dust That petty
( thief, who slips into your store and
takes yard OF your cloth from your
counter, will become the highwayman
of the forest, or the burglar az mid
night, picking the lock OF your money
safe and blowing up your store TO hide
the villainy. A great army, with stag
I gering step, and bloodshot eye, and
I drunken boot, they are coming on
! gathering recruits from every grog-
shop and den of infamy in the land, TO
take the ballot box and hurrah at the
I elections.
The hard knuckled fist OF ruiiianism
will have more power than the gentle
hand OF intelligence and sobriety
Men, bloated, and with the signature Of
sin burned In from the top OF the fore
head TO the bottom of the chin, will
look honest men out Of countenance.
Moral corpses, which ought 10 be
buried hundred feet deep 10 keep
them from poisoning the air, will rot
in the face of the sun at MONDAY.
Industry, In her plain frock, will be un-
K appreciated while thousands OF men
will wander around in idleness, with
their hands on their hips, saying:
1.-The world owes us a living. q,
what a tremendous power there is in
( iniQuity when uneducated, and unre-
( strained, and unblanched, IL goes on
concentrating, and deepening and
widening, and gathering momentum,
until il swings ahead with very
triumph of desolation, drowning like
surges, scorching like flames, crushing
like rocks
What are you going to do with this
4 abandoned population Of the streets?
VIII you gather them in your churchesy
IL is not the will Of your heavenly IA
ther that one of those little ones should
perish. II you have ten respectable
children in your class, gather In ten
that are not respectable. III IN your
Bible class there are twenty young
men who have come from Christian
homes and elegant surroundings, let
those twenty young men 60 out and
gather In twenty more of the young
men of the city who are lost 10 God
and lost TO society. This outside pop
ulation, unless educated and re.
strained, will work terror in ages that
are TO come.
Educate this abandoned population
or they will overthrow the institutions
of this land Gather them into your
Sabbath schools. / congratulate you
that many have been gathered. Go
forth, teachers, in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and on the coming
Sabbaths may there be found gathered
scores and hundreds of these wander
ers, and instead of 1880 in the Sab
bath school we shall see 5000 or 1000,
and the grace OF God will come down
upon them, and the holy spirit viii
bring them all into the truth.
Another characteristic of live
church is one with appropriate archi-
lecture. In the far West and amid
destitute populations log church Is
very appropriate people living In
log houses. But In communities where
people live In comfortable abodes, a
church uncommodious or lacking in